Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2013, 23:36 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
> On 2013-02-28 at 22:28:07 +0100, Uwe Lück wrote:
>> > Am Dienstag, den 26.02.2013, 17:31 -0500 schrieb Joel C. Salomon:
> > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Uwe Lück <uwe.lueck at web.de> wrote:
> > > > Thanks, great to learn. I dared to look at the fucking TeX Live manual
> > >
> > > There's your problem; read the manual on *using* TeX Live instead.
> >
> > You are very right: I have (sometimes) tried to find documentation
> > of how to *use* TeX Live, but somehow I couldn't. What I find is
> > rather about how installation works. I have not needed such information
> > for getting results that I have been happy with. I have tried
> > "pdflatex", "latex", and "tex", fine, but why?
> > (I need not know urgently.)
> >
> > Can YOU tell me? Does "the" manual contain something about
> > "using" TeX Live, or is there a different manual on *using* TeX Live?
> > (Two possible interpretations of your hint.)
>> Uwe, don't be silly.
Aha.
> TeX Live is a TeX distribution and the manual describes in detail
> everything one has to know in order to install and use this
> distribution.
>> However, if you don't know how to use pdflatex, latex, or tex, consult
>>http://tug.org/begin.html>> The TeX Live Guide already has a link to this URL on page 3. What are
> you missing?
This is too much. Maybe when I read the page word by word and
try many klicks, I will find an overview of what TeX Live's
binaries tex, etex, pdftex, pdfetex do (what engine they use).
Actually, the purpose of begin.html cannot be explaining TeX Live.
I am not a beginner, you know, I have specific questions about
TeX live. It seems to me that your hint real nonsense.
You seem to have a bias to misunderstand me and to send mails
that miss the point and so are not helpful, so exchanging mails
makes little sense.
-- Uwe.